REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will summon seven witnesses to the third hearing of a graft trial on the procurement of electronic identity card on Thursday. "Tomorrow, we will summon the seven witnesses, including one witness who has not been questioned in the second hearing," KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah said at the KPK building here on Wednesday.

KPK will focus the questioning of the seven witnesses on the budget for the e-ID project, he added. "The witnesses will come from ministries and DPR (the House of Representatives)," he noted.

In the second hearing on March 16, KPK had originally planned to question eight witnesses. However, one witness, former finance minister Agus Martowardojo, who is currently the governor of Bank Indonesia, did not show up, and the other witness, former director general of demographic administration of the Home Affairs Ministry Rasyid Saleh arrived late to the KPK building. As a result, Saleh will give his testimonies only on March 23.

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The six witnesses who gave their testimonies during the second hearing on March 16 were former home affairs minister Gamawan Fauzi, former secretary general of the Home Affairs Ministry Diah Angraeni, former chief of the ministry's planning bureau Yuswandi A Temenggung, former director general of regional finance of the ministry Elvius Dailami, DPR member Chaeruman Harahap, and businessman Winata Cahyadi.

The anti-graft body has named Director General of Demography and Vital Statistics of the Home Affairs Ministry Irman and official of the ministry Sugiharto as suspects in the graft case.

Both Irman and Sugiharto have been charged with violating article 2 paragraph (1) or article 3 of Law No. 31/1999 as already amended by Law No. 20/2001 concerning corruption eradication.

If found guilty, they could be sentenced to up to 20 years in jail and fined up to Rp1 billion. 

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